“This is a timely contribution to some of the most pressing debates facing scholars of Jewish Studies today. It forces us to re-think standard approaches to both antisemitism and liberalism. Its geographic scope offers a model for how scholars can “provincialize” Europe and engage in a transnational approach to Jewish history. The book crackles with intellectual energy; it is truly a pleasure to read.”- Jessica M. Marglin, University of Southern California, USA Green and Levis Sullam have assembled a collection of original, and provocative essays that, in illuminating the historic relationship between Jews and liberalism, transform our understanding of liberalism itself. - Derek Penslar, Harvard University, USA “This book offers a strikingly new account of Liberalism’s relationship to Jews. Previous scholarship stressed that Liberalism had to overcome its abivalence in order to achieve a principled stand on granting Jews rights and equality. This volume asserts, through multiple examples, that Liberalism excluded many groups, including Jews, so that the exclusion of Jews was indeed integral to Liberalism and constitutive for it. This is an important volume, with a challenging argument for the present moment.”- David Sorkin, Yale University, USA The emancipatory promise of liberalism – and its exclusionary qualities – shaped the fate of Jews in many parts of the world during the age of empire. Yet historians have mostly understood the relationship between Jews, liberalism and antisemitism as a European story, defined by the collapse of liberalism and the Holocaust. This volume challenges that perspective by taking a global approach. It takes account of recent historical work that explores issues of race, discrimination and hybrid identities in colonial and postcolonial settings, but which has done so without taking much account of Jews. Individual essays explore how liberalism, citizenship, nationality, gender, religion, race functioned differently in European Jewish heartlands, in the Mediterranean peripheries of Spain and the Ottoman empire, and in the North American Atlantic world.
Author(s): Abigail Green, Simon Levis Sullam
Series: Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 429
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: Towards a Twenty-First-Century History
Globalizing the Dialectics of Inclusion
Recontextualizing Liberalism and the Jews
Crossroads of Liberalism and the Jewish Experience
Jews and/beyond the Nation, Jews in/beyond Europe
Bibliography
Part I: The Limits of Liberalism
Chapter 2: Liberalism and Antisemitism: A Reassessment from the Peripheries
Antisemitism in Romania
The Algerian Antijuifs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Osman Bey’s The Conquest of the World by Jews (1873): A Liberal Antisemitism?
Antisemitic Pamphleteer and Militant Liberal
Founding Modern Conspirationism: La conquête du monde par les Juifs
The Cultural and Intellectual Sources of Osman Bey’s La Conquête
Osman Bey and the Jews: A Liberal Antisemitism?
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Jews and Other Others
Jews and Other Others: What We Know and What We Miss
The Uses and Pitfalls of Discussing Jewish Power and Privilege
Toward a New History of Jews and Other Others
Bibliography
Part II: Living Liberalism
Chapter 5: The Material of Race: Caribbean Jews, Clothing, and Manhood in the Age of Emancipation and Liberal Revolution
Fashion, Citizenship, and Race
Fabric
Tailoring
Clothing, Emancipation, Liberalism
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Liberalism, Antisemitism and Everyday Life in Vienna: The Tragic Case of Heinrich Jaques (1831–94)
Becoming a Jewish Liberal: Thinking and Living in Mid-Century Vienna
Life as a Liberal, Jewish Politician in Vienna, 1879–94
Conclusion: A Lasting Legacy?
Bibliography
Chapter 7: Giving and Dying in Liberal Italy: Jewish Men and Women in Italian Culture Wars
Living the Secular
Giving and Dying
Shades of Chiaroscuro
Bibliography
Part III: Rethinking East-West
Chapter 8: Unsettling the “Jewish Question” from the Margins of Europe: Spanish Liberalism and Sepharad
Spanish Liberals and Jews Re-encounter Sepharad
Spanish Liberals Look towards Sepharad in the Wake of Catastrophe
Bibliography
Chapter 9: A Model Millet? Ottoman Jewish Citizenship at the End of Empire
Cooperative Citizenship
Competitive Citizenship
Convergences
Bibliography
Chapter 10: From East to West: As the Liberal Melting Pot of Jewish Politics
Max Lilienthal: From Riga to Cincinnati
Emma Lazarus’ “New World Colossus”
Israel Zangwill and the “melting pot”
Jews and the Making of American Liberalism
Bibliography
Part IV: Liberalism, Empire, Zionism
Chapter 11: Who Introduced Liberalism into the Damascus Affair (1840)? Center, Periphery and Networks in the Jewish Response to the Blood Libel
Jewish Economic Elites in Syria c.1840
The Blood Libel Affair
Weakness and Power in the Jewish Leadership
The Network of the Port Jews Goes into Action
Liberalism and the Jewish Levant in the New Age of Empire
Bibliography
Chapter 12: A Jewish “Liberal” in Istanbul: Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Young Turks and the Zionist Press Network, 1908–1911
The Jabotinsky Plan
The Zionist Press-Complex and Le Jeune Turc
The Winter of Troubles
The Unionist Parallax, Zionism, Liberalism and Nationalism
Bibliography
Archives
Newspapers
Other Sources
Chapter 13: Jews, Imperial Liberalism, and the Predicament of “Small Nations”: Lewis B. Namier’s Gentry Nationalism
The Idea of Greater Britain
Meddling in the Middle
Third Empire or Third Temple?
Bibliography
Part V: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Liberalism
Chapter 14: 1848 and Beyond: Jews in the National and International Politics of Secularism and Revolution
1848: Jews in the Politics of Liberal Revolution
At Home and Abroad: Jews in the Midcentury Politics of Liberal Interventionism
The fin-de-siècle: Jewish Liberals and the Revolutionary Legacy
Bibliography
Chapter 15: “A Certain Type of Liberalism”: Minority Rights in Jewish Liberal Discourse, 1848–1948
The Birth of Minority Rights in 1848
In Search of “True Liberalism”: The Postwar Paradigm
From Minority Rights to Human Rights
Latter-Day Legacies
Bibliography
Archives
Bibliography
Chapter 16: The Jewishness of Cold War Liberalism
The Liberal Networks
Intellectual Profile
The Jewishness of Cold War Liberalism
Jewish Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
Religion and Modernity: The Jewish Limits of Cold War Liberalism
Bibliography
Chapter 17: Afterword
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Index
